AHRC Cities of Culture Network: The Coventry Cultural Policy & Evaluation Summit

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Thursday 24 June 2021 to Friday 25 June 2021
08:40 AM - 04:45 PM
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The programme will include a series of headline one-hour sessions with an invited list of exceptional presenters. Each presenter will use their knowledge and experience to bring a range of perspectives on cultural mega-events and respond to questions from the audience. Each session will be chaired by a representative from the Coventry City of Culture Leadership Programme and will be recorded and available as a free resource.
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Day 1: Policy perspectives – Thursday 24th June 2021
Time Activity 8.40 Summit opens 8.45 – 9.00 Introduction to programme - Cory Barrett, Creative Director & Coventry City of Culture Leadership Programme
9.00 – 10.00 Introductions: The road ahead - Laura Nyahue, Creative Director, Maokwo Arts
- Franco Bianchini, AHRC Centre for Cultural Value, University of Leeds
- Martin Sutherland, Executive Director, Coventry City of Culture Trust
- Martin Reeves, Chief Executive, Coventry City Council
10.00 – 11.00 What are the opportunities for culture-led growth? - Julia Goldsworthy, Director of Strategy, West Midlands Combined Authority
- Laura Dyer, Deputy Chief Executive Places and Engagement, Arts Council England
- Moira Sinclair, CEO, Paul Hamlyn Foundation
11.30 - 12.30 What difference can a year make? - Phil Batty, Head of Ceremonies, Culture and Queen’s Baton Relay Commonwealth Games 2022, Executive Director Festival*UK 2022 and formerly Director of Public Engagement Hull UKCC17
- Carrie Cooke, Deputy Director, Festival, City of Culture and Major Events, Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
- Clare Coghill, Leader Waltham Forest Borough Council
1.00 – 2.15 How can cultural mega-events actively challenge racial inequalities? - Elizabeth Lawal, Producer, Coventry City of Culture Trust
- Doreen Foster, CEO, Warwick Arts Centre
- Shanaz Gulzar, Chair, Bradford UK City of Culture 2025 Board
2.15 - 3.15 Levelling up; how can ‘seldom heard’ communities and individuals impact on policy? - Chenine Bhathena, Creative Director, Coventry City of Culture Trust
- Louise Yates, Director at Back to Ours, Hull
- Chris Rolls, Hull City of Culture 2017 & Coventry City of Culture 2021 learning consultant, 64 Million Artists
3.30 - 4.15 Research as cultural practice; supporting communities. - Jackie Hodgson, Warwick research lead, Deputy Pro Vice-Chancellor, University of Warwick
- Emma Meehan, Cooking Connections Coventry (Coventry University)
- Nadine Holdsworth, Homeless Monopoly (University of Warwick)
- Daniele Lorenzini, Carolina Rito & Federico Testa, Life Futures (Coventry University & University of Warwick)
4.15 - 5.00 Research as cultural practice; giving space and voice to the seldom heard - Neil Forbes, Director Institute for Creative Cultures, Coventry University
- Rosa Cisneros, Roma Allotment (Coventry University)
- Saba Hussain, Call The Midwives (Coventry University)
- Michele Aaron, SAVI: Social Action Video Initiative (University of Warwick)
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Day 2: Evaluation in practice - Friday 25th June 2021
Time Activity 8.40 Summit opens 8.45 – 9.00 Introduction to programme and Day One recap and reflections - John Knell: Summit Rapporteur
9.00- 9.10 Cultural priorities for UKRI research - Christopher Smith, Executive Chair of the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) and International Champion for UK Research and Innovation (UKRI)
9.15 - 10.15 The social value turn in cultural policy-making and funding requirements - Jonothan Neelands, Academic Lead for Research and Evaluation for the Coventry City of Culture Trust, (University of Warwick)
- Tarek Iskander, AD and CEO, Battersea Arts Centre
- Harman Sagger, Chief Economist, Department of Culture, Media and Sport, Chair Coventry City of Culture Technical Reference Group
10.30-11.30 Re-balancing the social and economic value of culture - Graham Russell, Amion Consultants, Economic Impact Assessment for Coventry City of Culture
- Mandy Barnett, Director of MBA Associates, Social Value Assessment of Coventry City of Culture
- Ingrid Abreu-Scherer, Civil Society Lead, What Works Centre For Wellbeing, Technical Reference Group, Coventry City of Culture
11.30 - 12.15 Research as cultural practice; supporting public health policy - Chaired by Karamjit Singh, Chair of the University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust and Culture Growth Coventry
- Michael Loizou and Deborah Biggerstaff : Digital Participative Visual Arts Intervention for People with Dementia (Coventry University and University of Warwick/Warwick Medical School)
- Sally Pezaro and Kerry Wykes : Humans not Heros Coventry University
- Oliver Scott: Route 10 (Mercurial Dance)
1.00 - 2.00 Developing place-based needs assessments to shape social and cultural policy and funding: - Si Chun Lam: Senior data analyst, Insight Team Coventry City Council
- Mark Scott: Monitoring and Data Manager, Coventry City of Culture Trust
- Katy Raines: Director, Indigo Consultants
2.00 - 2.45 Making sense of evaluation – towards a common policy - Ben Walmsley: Director, AHRC Centre for Cultural Value, University of Leeds
- Eliza Easton: Head of Policy, Unit AHRC Creative Industries Policy and Evidence Centre, Nesta, Coventry City of Culture Technical Reference Group
3.00 - 4.30 Take outs and take aways – plenary discussion
Chaired by: Beatriz Garcia: Associate Director, Centre for Cultural Value (University of Liverpool)- Chenine Bhathena, Creative Director, Coventry City of Culture Trust
- John Knell, Summit Rapporteur
- Cory Barret, Creative Director, & City of Culture Leadership Programme
- Glenn Burgess, Principal Investigator, AHRC Cities of Culture Network, University of Hull
- Laura Nyahue, Creative Director, Maokwo Arts
4.30 - 4.45 Closing messages
Pre and post summit events
Join postgraduate candidates and early career researchers for a pre-event networking afternoon (23rd June) and a post-event reflective morning (30th June).